For modern textile manufacturing, see Textile manufacturing. For hand techniques, and those used before 1750, see Textile manufacturing by pre-industrial methods. Early industrialised region at Barmen in the Wupper Valley, 1870 - painting by August von Wille
Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution in Britain was centred in south Lancashire and the towns on both sides of the Pennines. In Germany it was concentrated in the Wupper Valley, Ruhr Region and Upper Silesia, while in the United States it was in New England